My goal is to draw on the same or a copy PDF a rectangle over the text, for example to hide it or to draw a border around the text to show to the user something about this text.
Le lun. 12 févr. 2024 à 19:14, Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> a écrit : > It depends what you want to get. See the DrawPrintTextLocations.java > example which shows several strategies to get the bounding boxes of > individual glyphs and draw them on the screen (not in a PDF, so the Y > coordinate is different). You would have to adjust the > "Rectangle2D.Float" code to whatever you prefer|, or adjust > |DrawPrintTextLocations to collect words like the mkl code does. > > Tilman > > On 12.02.2024 18:48, Frédéric Ravetier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to find some specific words in a PDF and draw a rectangle over > > these words. > > I'm using PDFBox 3.0.1 > > > > I found this to locate the words : > > > https://github.com/mkl-public/testarea-pdfbox2/blob/master/src/test/java/mkl/testarea/pdfbox2/extract/ExtractWordCoordinates.java > > As you can see in the println, : > > System.out.println(builder.toString() + " [(X=" + boundingBox.getX() + > > ",Y=" + boundingBox.getY() > > + ") height=" + boundingBox.getHeight() + " > width=" + > > boundingBox.getWidth() + "]"); > > > > I get : > > MYSTRING [(X=29.862407684326172,Y=383.78765869140625) > > height=7.098414897918701 width=50.3477668762207 ] > > > > in my prototype I print this information and copy and past x, y, height, > > width into a block of code hardcoded > > > > PDPage page = document.getPage(0); > > PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, > > page, PDPageContentStream.AppendMode.APPEND, false); > > contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.RED); > > contentStream.addRect(29.862407684326172f, 383.78765869140625f, > > 50.3477668762207, 7.098414897918701f); > > contentStream.fill(); > > contentStream.close(); > > document.save(new FileOutputStream(src_file_path.replace(".pdf", > "-rect.pdf"))); > > > > > > But it does not match the text on the PDF. > > I tried to replace the height by the font size but it was not really > better. > > > > Where is my mistake ? > > > > Best regards, > > Fred > > >
